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RAHUL KARMAKAR ed cannot technically be GUWAHATI called foreigners as they Former envoy has a word of caution More than 19 lakh of the 3.3 have legal options to chal­ on Delhi’s role in a post­U.S. Kabul Committed to Kartarpur crore applicants have been lenge their exclusion from corridor, says Amit Shah left out of Assam’s final Na­ the NRC. Each of them has V. Sudarshan tional Register of Citizens 120 days to appeal before the Chennai Union Home Minister Amit (NRC), which was published Foreigners’ Tribunals, which India must not commit the Shah on Saturday said the on Saturday, concluding a in turn have six months to error of placing Indian Modi government was committed to completing the five­year, Supreme Court­ dispose of the cases. The ap­ troops on Afghan soil, says Kartarpur Sahib corridor monitored exercise that cost pellants can thereafter ap­ the diplomat who coordi­ within the stipulated time. ₹1,220 crore. proach the Gauhati High nated New Delhi’s secret Updating the NRC to sift Court and the Supreme military assistance to Ah­ NEWS Ī PAGE 10 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Indians from illegal immi­ Court to establish their citi­ mad Shah Massoud, the grants, believed to have zenship with proper docu­ military commander of the Chinmayanand case: girl’s come mostly from Bangla­ ments or end up in detention Northern Alliance, who Ahmad Shah Massoud, parents headed for Delhi desh, has been a 40­year­old camps for foreigners. fought the Taliban and U.S. the commander of the SHAHJAHANPUR demand that started in 1980 forces till his assassination Northern Alliance. * AFP Following the Supreme Court during the anti­foreigners’ State­specific in 2001. directions, a Delhi Police Assam Agitation. The 1985 Releasing the final data, NRC SPECIAL former President Najibul­ team arrived here on Assam Accord ending that Coordinator Prateek Hajela lah dead, castrated him, Saturday to take the parents agitation had incorporated said the process of the NRC For four years, between and hung his body from a of a law student, who was this demand and prescribed update in Assam differs from 1996 and 2000, till he left lamp post. Hours before allegedly sexually harassed 1971 as the base year for de­ the rest of the country and is the Tajik capital Dushanbe that happened, Indian Em­ by BJP leader Chinmayanand, tecting and deporting fo­ governed by rules framed as to take up his new posting, bassy staff members to meet her in Delhi. reigners in the State. per the cut­off date of March Ambassador Bharath Raj scrambled into the last NORTH & EAST Ī PAGE 7 The final version of the 24, 1971, enshrined in the As­ Muthu Kumar coordinated plane out of a country that DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD NRC contains the names of sam Accord. “Updating the military and medical assis­ had begun its descent into 3,11,21,004 of the total of NRC was a mammoth exer­ tance that India was se­ hell. 3,30,27,661 people who had cise involving about 52,000 cretly giving to Massoud Amrullah Saleh, who applied for inclusion in the Assam government officials and his forces. looked after Kabul’s inter­ document. The 19,06,657 pe­ working for a prolonged pe­ It all began, says Mr. ests in the Tajik capital, ople excluded make up riod,” he said. Muthu Kumar, exactly a called Mr. Muthu Kumar to 46.39% of the 41.09 lakh peo­ week after September 26, inform him that the “Com­ ple who were left out of the SONOWAL OFFERS HELP 1996, when the Taliban, mander” would like to draft list published on July TO NRC EXCLUDED Ī PAGE 11 backed by Pakistan’s Inter­ meet him. 30, 2018, and an additional CENTRE IN NO HURRY Ī PAGE 11 Services Intelligence (ISI), MAGAZINE Ī 32 PAGES (TABLOID) list a year later. POOR IMPLEMENTATION, took over Kabul, shot ‘LISTEN CAREFULLY’ Ī PAGE 10 CLASSIFIEDS Ī PAGES 4 & 6 Officials said those exclud­ SAYS CONGRESS Ī PAGE 11 Investigation ordered into Tiwari rakes up Delhi NRC again uranium contamination State BJP chief says he would broach matter with Amit Shah A.P. CM orders action on complaints Jatin Anand make their stand on the issue New Delhi known,” the BJP leader said. Staff Reporter Geophysical Research Insti­ Delhi BJP chief Manoj Tiwari He said that illegal Bangla­ VIJAYAWADA tute, the Atomic Energy Reg­ on Saturday reiterated his de­ deshis and Rohingya refugees The Andhra Pradesh go­ ulatory Board, the Mines mand for an exercise similar were depriving citizens of vernment has ordered a full­ and Geology, Groundwater to Assam’s National Register their rights and “exploiting fledged inquiry into a num­ and Agriculture Depart­ of Citizens in the Capital. the resources of Delhi”. ber of complaints about ments of the State govern­ While the country, he said, At a rally in September last groundwater pollution ment and the IIT­Tirupati as was always willing to wel­ year, Mr. Tiwari had an­ caused by the uranium min­ members. It will submit a re­ come those seeking refuge in nounced that the BJP govern­ ing and processing project port in 10 days. it legally, “it would not toler­ Manoj Tiwari ment would initiate the NRC of the Uranium Corporation Ever since uranium was ate infiltrators”. process in Delhi and “take ac­ of India Limited (UCIL) at discovered at this remote The North East Delhi MP NRC has become necessity tion against infiltrators”. Tummalapalle in Vemula village and the mining of ore argued that an NRC exercise not only in the interest of Del­ “I firmly believe that illegal mandal of Kadapa district. and processing began, resi­ was necessary in Delhi to ad­ hi but also for the security of migrants in Delhi are depriv­ Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan­ dents of six to seven villages dress issues ranging from the entire country,” Mr. Tiwa­ ing locals of rights and oppor­ mohan Reddy reviewed the around the site have been prevention of possible terror ri said, adding that he would tunities whether these be re­ situation on Friday and di­ complaining of contamina­ plots to reining in street broach the matter with Union lated to Central government rected the officers to look in­ tion of groundwater. There crimes, drug trafficking, en­ Home Minister Amit Shah. schemes such as the provi­ to the complaints. The go­ were reports of people fall­ hancing women’s safety and sion of housing, employment vernment asked the Andhra ing ill and damage to crops. checking “encroachment of Wait and watch and health facilities,” he said. Pradesh Pollution Control The constitution of the both land and rights meant “As far as the timing of the ex­ “After the preparation of Board (APPCB) to set up a committee came after Kada­ for legal citizens by illegal ercise in Delhi is concerned, NRC, Delhi will change for the committee of experts which pa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy outsiders”. things will become clearer as better and the people entitled would visit the tailings pond and K. Babu Rao, a former “Our city is sitting on sev­ the exercise reaches its con­ to basic amenities of high where the wastage from the scientist of the Indian Insti­ eral possible terror plots clusion in Assam; in the standard will get them. All UCIL facility is stored. tute of Chemical Technolo­ which could be hatched by meantime, I would like to ask political parties should unite The committee would gy, raised the issue. any of the 10 to 12 lakh illegal colleagues from all political on the issue of NRC because it comprise scientists and se­ immigrants currently resid­ parties, including Chief Mi­ is a question of internal and nior officials of the National CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 ing in it. An exercise like the nister Arvind Kejriwal, to economic security,” he said.

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Jaisankar hold any post as a public A Dalit Assistant Professor PUDUKOTTAI servant) and 501 (printing in Allahabad University Special Correspondent It was not just his activism any matter known to be on Saturday said he NEW DELHI that landed 39­year­old defamatory). However, he feared he could be The Delhi police on Satur­ Durai Guna alias had not been arrested. lynched by a mob after an day urged a city court to Gunasekaran in trouble. Mr. Guna was outraged: old video showing him prosecute Congress MP His novel ways of “I am really perturbed over making controversial re­ for abet­ protesting had a role to the case filed against me. marks about a Hindu dei­ ment to suicide or “in alter­ play too. The officials, instead of ty was widely circulated native” on murder charge A few days ago, residents taking action against the on campus. in the case of death of his of Pudukottai in Tamil encroachers, have The university’s admi­ wife in Nadu woke up to posters he threatened me by filing a nistration has served Vik­ 2014. It made a submission had pasted all over town, case. It is an attempt to ram Harijan, an Assistant on Saturday that the post­ calling for applications to stifle my voice,” he said. Professor in the Medieval mortem report had evi­ More trouble: Shashi Tharoor is out on bail now in the fill the ‘vacant posts’ of Meanwhile, Collector P. and Ancient History de­ dence of murder. case of death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. District Collector, District Novel protest: The notice that caused sensation in Pudukottai. Uma Maheswari said it had partment, a show­cause Sunanda was found dead Revenue Officer and other been established that three notice following a com­ in a five­star hotel here on Special Judge Ajay Kumar he said. officials. in 2017, urging them to Recommendations of hectares of Vettukulam had plaint by a group of stu­ January 17, 2014. The police Kuhar, Additional Public The prosecution con­ A Dalit social activist and clear the encroachments as Ministers and others would been encroached by three dents who claimed they have charge­sheeted Mr. Prosecutor Atul Srivastava cluded its arguments. The writer based in Pudukottai, per High Court and not be entertained, the persons for more than 30 had been offended by Mr. Tharoor under Sections urged the court to frame matter will now come up Mr. Durai Guna put up the Supreme Court orders. notices said. years. One of them had an Harijan’s remarks. 306 (abetting in the com­ both charges against Mr. for hearing on October 17 posters to protest “official There was no action. The unregistered sale deed, Mr. Harijan found him­ mission of suicide) and Tharoor and decide which when defence counsel will inaction” on his plea to activist then put up the Complaint filed claiming that he had self in trouble after a re­ 498A (subjecting a married of the two offences was begin arguments. Mr. Sri­ remove encroachments posters and hand bills. The VAO of bought the land from an search scholar, Ranjeet woman to cruelty) of the proved or not proved in the vastava had also argued from an irrigation tank. The notices “invited” Theerthanviduthi filed a individual several years Saroj, on August 20 Indian Penal Code. The trial. Section 221 of the Cri­ that there was sufficient He alleged that three applications for the posts of complaint against Mr. Guna ago. But, it had been uploaded on YouTube a court took cognisance of minal Procedure Code pro­ material on record to prove persons were illegally Collector, DRO, Divisional alleging insult to officials. established that the land video showing the faculty the charge sheet and sum­ vides for framing of charges the charges against Mr. occupying three hectares of Revenue Officer and Village Based on this, the was part of a Panchayat member making contro­ moned Mr. Tharoor last in such a manner when Tharoor of subjecting Push­ the Vettukulam tank, and Administrative Officer. The Karambakudi police Union tank. The versial comments on a year. He is out on bail now. there is a doubt about kar to cruelty and thereby were raising crops. qualifications were “general booked a case against him encroachers had been Hindu deity. In his arguments on the which of several offences abetting in her suicide. He had petitioned the knowledge, discipline and under IPC provisions: asked to vacate framing of charges before an accused has committed, (With inputs from PTI) Collector and other officials self respect”. Section 170 (pretending to immediately. DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 9 CM A ND-NDE YK